LKML News v6.7-rc3

[PATCH v6 0/4] page_owner: print stacks and their counter (Oscar Salvador)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231120084300.4368-1-osalvador@suse.de

This patchset introduces a new read-only file page_owner_stacks. This can be useful for getting the relationship between stacks and allocation/free without fiddling with pages.

[PATCH v3 0/8] riscv: ASID-related and UP-related TLB flush enhancements (Samuel Holland)

https://lkml.kerenl.org/r/20231122010815.3545294-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com

A patchset for improving some TLB flush inefficiencies in risc-v.

[RFC] mm: Multi-gen LRU: fix use of mm/page_idle/bitmap (Henry Huang)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1700719508.git.henry.hj@antgroup.com

Page Idle Tracking is unabled to be used when MGLRU is enabled. This RFC patch fixes it.

[PATCH v3 0/3] samples: introduce cgroup events listeners (Dmitry Rokosov)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231123071945.25811-1-ddrokosov@salutedevices.com

This patchset adds a new memcg events linstener that can be effecive at monitoring memory events and managing counter changes in runtime.

Linux 6.7-rc3 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj1q-Ek=VTzcKT42q8QJqYfmEzDvu-wpCc_oSERq+naWg@mail.gmail.com

The third release candidate for v6.7 has released. It has a couple of big Realtek phy code reverts and some more changes, but mostly fairly small, according to Linus.

Below is the diffstat of the releases in the last two years.

Note that the y-axis is in logarithm. I draw it using https://github.com/sjp38/relstat and https://github.com/sjp38/lazybox using below command:

$ relstat.py --since 2021-11-27 | ~/lazybox/gnuplot/plot.py \
    --data_fmt table --type labeled-lines --xtics_rotate -90 \
    --font "Times New Roman, 5pt" --ylog --pointsize 0.3

And, below is the diffstat of the -rc3 releases in the last two years.